Definitions for flue

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Spelling: [floo]
IPA: /flu/

Flue is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in flue (eflu).

Definitions for flue

noun

  1. a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney.
  2. any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like.
  3. a tube, especially a large one, in a fire-tube boiler.
  4. Music. flue pipe. Also called windway. a narrow slit in the upper end of an organ pipe through which the air current is directed.
  5. downy matter; fluff.
  6. a fishing net.

Origin of flue

1555-65; earlier flew, perhaps representing Old English flēwsa a flowing, the form flews being taken as plural

Examples for flue

He said he put it in the flue of the fireplace, because there was no closet in the room.

He put it in the flue of the fireplace, and it tumbled down.

The cross-section area of the flue is likely to prove the most common difficulty.

In these days, how common is it to provide rooms with only a flue for a stove!

Biddy had made up too large a fire in the stove and heated the flue.

Dirty finger-prints were on the hall-windows, flue and rubbish on its unwashed boards.

The chimney-pot to which he had to fix the flue was in the middle of the roof.

He ceased to restrict the toe of the pipe and did all his regulation at the flue.

These brushes were passed up and down every flue in the house.

Anyway I got doubled up somehow; and that's the reason I stuck in the flue.

Word Value for flue
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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